Elementary and secondary schools · Connecticut

John Paterson School

Newington, CT · ~73 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

John Paterson School runs at 734% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

John Paterson School: 10.3 TCR = 734% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

John Paterson School safety composite

John Paterson School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−7.9

2017→2024

John Paterson School injury rate improved

John Paterson School's TCR fell 7.9 from 15.3 in 2017 to 7.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 20.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.3 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=20.2 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=7.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Newington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 734% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #311/381
  • PHOTO Schaumburg Community…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District No. 54 (0.0 TCR gap)

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John Paterson School in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows John Paterson School averages 10.3 TCR (734% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

John Paterson School TCR series: 2017=15.3 · 2018=5 · 2019=10.5 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=20.2 · 2022=15.8 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=7.4 · BLS 1.4

Where John Paterson School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #311 safest of 381 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Connecticut.

John Paterson School (73 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate John Paterson School
John Paterson School (73 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

John Paterson School has fewer employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 7.4 1.8 4 0 0
2023 3.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 15.8 3.5 9 0 0
2021 20.2 0.0 10 0 0
2020 4.4 0.0 2 0 0
2019 10.5 2.1 5 0 0
2018 5.0 2.5 2 0 0
2017 15.3 0.0 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Newington

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 85 employers in Newington, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Schaumburg Community Consolidated School District No. 54 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milaca Public Schools 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vandyke Elementary School 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paxton-Buckley-Loda Community Unit School District No. 10 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CECO Concrete : Hartford 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Platt Bros. & Co., Inc 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forrest Machine Inc. 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connecticut Division 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Companions Forever LLC 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Newington, CT (DC) 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stew Leonard's - Newington 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2965 218 FTE
NAT-TCR Akron Rotary Camp 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McDaniel and Son Plumbing, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Crescent City Marine 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dillsburg Excavating & Septic, Inc. 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Recology Vacaville Solano 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Dallas 2 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Advanced Cable Solutions, Inc. 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Calleguas Municipal Water District 73 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.